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  • 2007 Ca’ de’ Medici Reggiano Lambrusco - Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Reggiano (9/2/2009)
    Pale, translucent garnet with gentle fizz and a very pleasant cranberry-cherry bouquet. This is quite zippy on the palate, where it’s dry, fruity, and has plenty of acidity to wash down tonight’s baked ziti. There’s a slight bitterness to it, but in a way that fits the cranberry fruit profile. I like it. 11% abv.

An aside: we’d pretty much written off Lambrusco after we had one that tasted like sparkling Manischewitz at a trattoria somewhere in Europe.

This bottle was somewhere south of $11, and I can seriously imagine drinking this with all sorts of heavy Italian-American dishes that often leave us scratching our heads for an appropriate pairing.

Also fantastic with Tandoori, BBQ (Carolina or Korean, it works) and all manner of mole and other Oaxacan goodies!